fwsnort-1.6.3 (12/21/2012):
- Bug fix to ensure that !, , and = chars in content strings are
converted to the appropriate hex equivalents. All content strings with
characters outside of [A-Za-z0-9] are now converted to hex-string format
in their entirety. This should also fix an issue that results in the
following error when running /var/lib/fwsnort/fwsnort.sh:
Using intrapositioned negation (`--option ! this`) is deprecated in
favor of extrapositioned (`! --option this`).
Bad argument `bm'
Error occurred at line: 64
Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more
information.
Done.
- Bug fix to set default max string length in --no-ipt-test mode where
iptables capabilities are not tested.
- (Andrew Merenbach) Bug fix to properly honor --exclude-regex filtering
option.
- Added fwsnort test suite to the test/ directory. This mimics the test
suites from the psad and fwknop projects, and it designed to examine
many of the run time results of fwsnort.
- Added the ability to easily revert the fwsnort policy back to the
original iptables policy with "/var/lib/fwsnort/fwsnort.sh -r". Note
that this reverts back to the policy as it was when fwsnort itself was
executed.
- Implemented a single unified function for iptables match parameter
length testing, and optimized to drastically reduce run time for iptables
capabilities checks (going from over 20 seconds to less than one second
in some cases).
- (Dwight Davis) Contributed patches for several bugs including not
handling --exclude-regex properly, not ignoring the deleted.rules file,
not handling --strict mode opertions correctly, and more. These issues
and the corresponding patch were originally reported here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693000
- Bug fix for Snort rules with HOME_NET(any) -> EXTERNAL_NET(any) to
ensure they go into the OUTPUT chain instead of the INPUT chain. This
bug was reported by Dwight Davis.
- Updated to bundle the latest Emerging Threats rule set.
fwsnort-1.6.2 (04/28/2012):
- Switched --no-ipt-sync to default to not syncing with the iptables policy.
By default fwsnort attempts to match translated Snort rules to the
running iptables policy, but this is tough to do well because iptables
policies can be complex. And, before fwsnort switched to the
iptables-save format for instantiating the policy, a large set of
translated rules could take a really long time to make active within the
kernel. Finally, many Snort rules restrict themselves to established TCP
connections anyway, and if a restrictive policy doesn't allow connections
to get into the established state for some port let's say, then there is
little harm in having translated Snort rules for this port. Some kernel
memory would be wasted (small), but no performance would be lost since
packets won't be processed against these rules anyway. The end result is
that the default behavior is now to not sync with the local iptables
policy in favor of translating and instantiating as many rules as
possible.
- Replaced Net::IPv4Addr with the excellent NetAddr::IP module which has
comprehensive support for IPv6 address network parsing and comparisons.
- Moved the fwsnort.sh script and associated files into the
/var/lib/fwsnort/ directory. This was suggested by Peter Vrabec.
- Bug fix for recent versions of iptables (such as 1.4.12) where the icmp
match requires --icmp-type to be set - some Snort rules look for a string
to match in icmp traffic, but don't also specify an icmp type.
- Bug fix for 'qw(...) usage as parenthesis' warnings for perl > 5.14
- Removed the ExtUtils::MakeMaker RPM build requirement from the
fwsnort.spec file. This is a compromise which will allow the fwsnort RPM
to be built even if RPM dosen't or can't see that ExtUtils::MakeMaker is
installed - most likely it will build anyway. If it doesn't, there are
bigger problems since fwsnort is written in perl. If you want to build
the fwsnort RPM with a .spec file that requires ExtUtils::MakeMaker, then
use the "fwsnort-require-makemaker.spec" file that is bundled in the
fwsnort sources.
fwsnort-1.6.1 (11/01/2011):
- (Kim Hagen) submitted a patch for a bug in fwsnort-1.6 where the fwsnort
policy in iptables-save format could not be loaded whenever iptables-save
put the nat table output after the filter table output. In this case,
fwsnort would fail with an error like the following:
Couldn't load target
`FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB':/lib/xtables/libipt_FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fwsnort now invokes 'iptables-save -t filter' in order to ensure that
ordering issues do not affect how fwsnort builds its translated rule set.
- Bug fix to ensure that fwsnort does not attempt to re-order pattern
matches for patterns that have a relative match requirement. For non-
relative matches fwsnort re-orders pattern matches based on the pattern
length, reasoning that the longest pattern should be processed first for
better performance. The usage of the fast_pattern keyword give the user
explicit control over this. Here is a Snort rule that is now properly
handled by fwsnort (references removed):
alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"ET WEB_CLIENT
Possible Adobe Reader and Acrobat Forms Data Format Remote Security
Bypass Attempt"; flow:established,to_client; file_data; content:"%FDF-";
depth:300; content:"/F(JavaScript|3a|"; nocase; distance:0;
classtype:attempted-user; sid:2010664; rev:8;)
Before this change, fwsnort translated this rule as:
$IPTABLES -A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -m string
--hex-string "/F(JavaScript|3a|" --algo bm --from 69 --icase -m string
--hex-string "%FDF|2d|" --algo bm --to 364 -m comment --comment
"sid:2010664; msg:ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Adobe Reader and Acrobat Forms
Data Format Remote Security Bypass Attempt; classtype:attempted-user;
rev:8; FWS:1.6;" -j LOG --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options --log-prefix
"SID2010664 ESTAB "
Note that in the above rule, the "/F(JavaScript|3a|" pattern was switched
to be evaluated first even though it is a relative match to the previous
pattern in the original Snort rule. After this change, fwsnort translates
this rule as:
$IPTABLES -A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -m string
--hex-string "%FDF|2d|" --algo bm --to 364 -m string --hex-string
"/F(JavaScript|3a|" --algo bm --from 69 --icase -m comment --comment
"sid:2010664; msg:ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Adobe Reader and Acrobat Forms
Data Format Remote Security Bypass Attempt; classtype:attempted-user;
rev:8; FWS:1.6;" -j LOG --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options --log-prefix
"SID2010664 ESTAB "
- Updated to the latest Emerging Threats rule set.
fwsnort-1.6 (07/28/2011):
- Fixed the --ipt-apply functionality - the variable that held the
fwsnort.sh path was not initialized properly prior to this change.
- Added the --Conntrack-state argument to specify a conntrack state
in place of the "established" state that commonly accompanies the Snort
"flow" keyword. By default, fwsnort uses the conntrack state of
"ESTABLISHED" for this. In certain corner cases, it might be useful to
use "ESTABLISHED,RELATED" instead to apply application layer inspection
to things like ICMP port unreachable messages that are responses to real
attempted communications. (Need to add UDP tracking for the _ESTAB
chains for this too - coming soon.)
- Recent releases of iptables and the Linux kernel support matching on
connection state via the conntrack modules and the --ctstate switch.
Added a capabilities test for this, and will fall back to using the state
match if the conntrack module is not available.
- Bugfix to ensure the iptables log prefixes built by fwsnort are not
longer than those allowed by the running iptables firewall. This is
usually a total of 29 characters, but fwsnort now dynamically figures out
this value.
- Bugfix for --ipt-list and --ipt-flush to ensure that the proper iptables
binary path is chosen. These args failed without this because the
iptables binary was not set.
fwsnort-1.5 (01/08/2011):
- Major update to use the iptables-save format instead of the older
strategy of always just executing iptables commands directly (which was
very flow for large fwsnort policies). The /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.sh
script now just executes:
/sbin/iptables-restore < /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.save
All fwsnort rules are now placed in the /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.save file,
but the older fwsnort.sh output (for the individual commands version)
is still available at /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort_iptcmds.sh. This
functionality extends to ip6tables policies as well. The fwsnort man
page explain this in better detail:
"As of fwsnort-1.5 all iptables rules built by fwsnort are written out
to the /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.save file in iptables-save format. This
allows a long fwsnort policy (which may contain thousands of iptables
rules translated from a large Snort signature set) to be quickly
instantiated via the "iptables-restore" command. A wrapper script
/etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.sh is also written out to make this easy. Hence,
the typical work flow for fwsnort is to: 1) run fwsnort, 2) note the
Snort rules that fwsnort was able to successfully translate (the number
of such rules is printed to stdout), and then 3) execute the
/etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.sh wrapper script to instantiate the policy in the
running kernel."
- Added the --rules-url argument so that the URL for updating the
Emerging Threats rule set can be specified from the command line. The
default is:
http://rules.emergingthreats.net/open/snort-2.9.0/emerging-all.rules
- Updated to automatically check for the maximum length string that the
string match supports, and this is used to through out any Snort rules
with content matches longer than this length.
- Updated the iptables capabilities testing routines to add and delete
testing rules to/from the custom chain 'FWS_CAP_TEST'. This maintains a
a cleaner separation between fwsnort and any existing iptables policy
even during the capabilities testing phase.
- Added the --ipt-check-capabilities argument to have fwsnort test the
capabilities of the local iptables firewall and exit.
- Added the --string-match-alg argument to allow the string matching
algorithm used by fwsnort to be specified from the command line. The
default algorithm is 'bm' for 'Boyer-Moore', but 'kmp' may also be
specified (short for the 'Knuth–Morris–Pratt' algorithm).
- Updated to the latest complete rule set from Emerging Threats (see
http://www.emergingthreats.net/).
fwsnort-1.1 (01/05/2010):
- Added the ability to build an fwsnort policy that utilizes ip6tables
instead of iptables. This allows fwsnort filtering and altering
capabilities to apply to IPv6 traffic instead of just IPv4 traffic. To
enable ip6tables usage, use the "-6" or "--ip6tables" command line
arguments.
- Added the --include-perl-triggers command line argument so that
translated Snort rules can easily be tested. This argument instructs
fwsnort to include 'perl -e print ... ' commands as comments in the
/etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.sh script, and these commands can be combined
with netcat to send payloads across the wire that match Snort rules.
- Updated fwsnort to create logs in the /var/log/fwsnort/ directory
instead of directly in the /var/log/ directory. The path is controlled
by a new variable 'LOG_FILE' in the /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.conf file.
- Added several variables in /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.conf to control paths
to everything from the config file to the snort rules path. Coupled
with this is the ability to create variables within path components and
fwsnort will expand them (e.g. 'CONF_DIR /etc/fwsnort;
CONF_FILE $CONF_DIR/fwsnort.conf').
- Added --Last-cmd arg so that it is easy to rebuild the fwsnort.sh script
with the same command line args as the previous execution.
fwsnort-1.0.6 (05/30/2009):
- (Franck Joncourt) Updated fwsnort to use the "!

" syntax
instead of the older "

! " for the iptables command line.
- (Franck Joncourt) For the --hex-string and --string matches, if the
argument exceeds 128 bytes (iptables 1.4.2) then iptables fails with an
error "iptables v1.4.2: STRING too long". Fixes this with a patch that
adds a new variable in fwsnort.conf "MAX_STRING_LEN", so that the size of
the content can be limited. If the content (null terminated string) is
more than MAX_STRING_LEN chars, fwsnort throws the rule away.
- Bug fix to allow fwsnort to properly translate snort rules that have
"content" fields with embedded escaped semicolons (e.g. "\;"). This
allows fwsnort to translate about 58 additional rules from the Emerging
Threats rule set.
- Bug fix to allow case insensitive matches to work properly with the
--include-re-caseless and --exclude-re-caseless arguments.
- Bug fix to move the 'rawbytes' keyword to the list of keywords that are
ignored since iptables does a raw match anyway as it doesn't run any
preprocessors in the Snort sense.
- Added the --snort-rfile argument so that a specific Snort rules file (or
list of files separated by commas) is parsed.
- Added a small hack to choose the first port from a port list until the
iptables 'multiport' match is supported.
- Updated to consolidate spaces in hex matches in the fwsnort.sh script
since the spaces are not part of patterns to be searched anyway.
- Updated to the latest complete rule set from Emerging Threats (see
http://www.emergingthreats.net/).
- Added the "fwsnort-nobuildreqs.spec" file for building fwsnort on
systems (such as Debian) that do not install/upgrade software via RPM.
This file omits the "BuildRequires: perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker" directive,
and this fixes errors like the following on an Ubuntu system when
building fwsnort with rpmbuild:
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
fwsnort-1.0.5 (08/21/2008):
- Replaced the bleeding-all.rules file with the emerging-all.rules file.
This is because Matt Jonkman now releases his rule sets at
http://www.emergingthreats.net/
- Restructured perl module paths to make it easy to introduce a "nodeps"
distribution of fwsnort that does not contain any perl modules. This
allows better integration with systems that already have all necessary
modules installed (including the IPTables::ChainMgr and IPTables::Parse
modules). The main driver for this work is to make all cipherdyne.org
projects easily integrated with distributions based on Debian, and
Franck Joncourt has been instrumental in making this process a reality.
All perl modules are now placed within the "deps" directory, and the
install.pl script checks to see if this directory exists - a separate
fwsnort-nodeps- tarball will be distributed without this directory.
The Debian package for fwsnort can then reference the -nodeps tarball,
and a new "fwsnort-nodeps.spec" file has been added to build an RPM from
the fwsnort sources that does not install any perl modules.
- Updated to import perl modules from /usr/lib/fwsnort, but only if this
path actually exists in the filesystem. This is similar to the strategy
implemented by psad. A new variable FWSNORT_LIBS_DIR was added to the
fwsnort.conf to support this.
- Added support for multiple Snort rule directories as a comma-separated
list for the argument to --snort-rdir.
- Moved 'threshold' to the unsupported list since there will be several
signatures that use this feature to detect the Dan Kaminsky DNS attack,
and fwsnort does not yet support the usage of the iptables --limit
match.
fwsnort-1.0.4 (01/22/2008):
- (Grant Ferley) Submitted patch to exclude loopback interfaces from
iptables allow rules parsing. This behavior can be reversed with the
existing --no-exclude-loopback command line argument.
- (Grant Ferley) Submitted patch to IPTables::Parse to take into account
iptables policy output that contains "0" instead of "all" to represent
any protocol.
- (Grant Ferley) Submitted patch to IPTables::Parse to set sport and dport
to '0:0' if the protocol is 'all'.
- Bugfix to allow negated networks to be specified within iptables allow
rules or within the fwsnort.conf file.
- Updated install.pl to set the LC_ALL environmental variable to "C". This
should fix potential locale problems (this fix was borrowed from the
fwknop project).
fwsnort-1.0.3 (11/22/2007):
- Added --include-re-caseless and --exclude-re-caseless options to have
--include-regex and --exclude-regex options match case insensitively.
- Major signature update from Bleeding Threats. This update includes a
large number of new signatures with PCRE statements, with an emphasis on
detecting SQL injection attacks directed at internal webservers from
external sources.
- Added the ability to interpret PCRE statements that include simple
string matches separated by ".*" and ".+" as multiple iptables string
matches. The only negative consequence in terms of signature detection
is that ordering is not preserved; that is, the PCRE "/UNION.+SELECT/"
would only match a packet that contains "UNION" followed by "SELECT",
whereas an iptables rule that uses a string match for UNION and a
separate string match for SELECT would match a packet that contains both
strings but in reverse. Typically this is not a huge concern, and the
PCRE translation can be disabled with a new option --no-pcre.
- Added asn1 keyword to unsupported list.
fwsnort-1.0.2 (08/26/2007):
- Bugfix to make sure to add in header lengths for depth and offset values
since the string match extension compares bytes from the start of the
data link header.
fwsnort-1.0.1 (08/26/2007):
- Bugfix for ipt_rule_test() function name.
- Added the ability to automatically resolve command paths if any commands
cannot be found at the locations specified in the fwsnort.conf file.
fwsnort-1.0 (04/19/2007):
- Major update to include support for the NFQUEUE and QUEUE targets with
new command line options --NFQUEUE and --QUEUE. This changes the
default LOG target to the NFQUEUE or QUEUE targets instead, and at the
same time builds a parallel Snort rule set in the
/etc/fwsnort/snort_rules_queue directory. Every Snort rule in this
directory has at least one "content" keyword, which fwsnort uses in the
resulting iptables policy. This policy only sends those packets to
snort_inline via the NFQUEUE or QUEUE target that match a content field
within some Snort rule. The end result is that snort_inline should run
faster because the vast majority of packets (which are not malicious)
are processed via the Linux kernel without ever having to be sent to
userspace for analysis. There is a tradeoff here in terms of attack
detection; snort_inline does not receive all packets associated with a
stream, so it cannot detect attacks quite as effectively (snort_inline
does not have an opportunity to look at reassembled buffers). However,
this trade off may be acceptable for large sites where performance is
more important.
- Bug fix to remove any existing jump rules from the built-in INPUT,
OUTPUT, and FORWARD chains before creating a new jump rules. This
allows the fwsnort.sh script to be executed multiple times without
creating a new jump rule into the fwsnort chains for each execution.
- Added the -X command line argument to allow fwsnort to delete all of
the fwsnort chains; this emulates the iptables command line argument
of the same name.
- Minor output enhancements and bugfixes to give more insight into the
translation process. For example, if fwsnort is run in --snort-sid
mode but is unable to translate the specified signatures, the user is
notified. Also, any existing /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.sh script is not
archived and erased until fwsnort is actually going to write a new one.
- Added sid values to iptables comment match string.
- Bugfix for iptables string match --from and --to values to skip past
packet headers. This is an approximation until a new --payload option
can be added to the string match extension.
- Added a single iptables rule testing API internally within fwsnort;
this adds a measure of consistency and removes some duplicate code.
- Added fwsnort mailing list at SourceForge.
fwsnort-0.9.0 (03/22/2007):
- Added support for multiple content matches since this is supported by
iptables. This made a 10% increase in the fwsnort translation rate -
about 60% of all Snort-2.3.3 rules can be translated now.
- Added emulation for distance and within from previous content match
based on --from and --to (string match extension) and the length of
the previous pattern.
- Added the ability to include the Snort "msg", "classtype", "reference",
"priority", and "rev" fields in each iptables rule with the comment
match. This can be disabled with a new command line argument
--no-ipt-comments. The fwsnort version is also included within this
string.
- Added the ability to include the iptables rule number for each rule in
the fwsnort chains. This is useful to easily know which iptables rule
is being triggered by network traffic (so it can be disabled if
necessary). This can be disabled with --no-ipt-rule-nums.
- Added the --include-regex and --exclude-regex command line arguments.
These arguments allow rules to be included/excluded based on a regular
expression supplied on the command line.
- Updated to include the original Snort rule as a comment within the
fwsnort.sh script without having to use --verbose.
- Bugfix to force install of IPTables::Parse since it had been updated in
the fwsnort-0.8.2 release.
- Changed the IGNORE_ADDR variable to WHITELIST since this name better
describes the actual function of this var. Updated to allow multiple
WHITELIST lines.
- Added the BLACKLIST variable to allow a true blacklist to be
instantiated with either the DROP or REJECT targets. The syntax for the
BLACKLIST variable is "BLACKLIST ", where
"target" is either "DROP" or "REJECT".
- Added -F and -L command line arguments to flush and list iptables rules.
This is similar to the iptables command line args of the same names.
- Bugfix to ensure that traffic directed into the INPUT or coming from the
OUTPUT chains is treated as going toward or originating from the
HOME_NET. After all the HOME_NET variable may contain an internal
network but omit the IP assigned to an external interface on the
firewall.
- Added "--log-ip-options" and "--log-tcp-options" to fwsnort LOG rules by
default (in the generated fwsnort.sh script). This can be disabled with
--no-log-ip-opts and --no-log-tcp-opts arguments on the fwsnort command
line.
- Added the ability to include --log-tcp-sequence to LOG rules in
fwsnort.sh with a new argument --ipt-log-tcp-seq on the fwsnort command
line.
- Updated to handle negative string matches with "--string ! ".
- Updated to output all unsupported options of the /var/log/fwsnort.log
file to assist in the development of addition keyword emulation.
fwsnort-0.8.2 (02/17/2007):
- Updated to newer IPTables::Parse module that uses the array of hash
references method of returning iptables policy data.
- Added --Dump-ipt and --Dump-snort rules to allow iptables policy and
Snort rules to be dumped to STDOUT.
- Added bleeding-all.rules file from http://www.bleedingsnort.com/
- Added patches/bm_goodshift_fix.patch patch file that fixes an
initialization bug in the Boyer-Moore text search implementation in the
kernel (linux-2.6.x/lib/ts_bm.c) which caused slightly repetitive
patterns to only match at specific offsets with the string match
extension.
- Bugfix to ensure that a depth cannot be less that an offset (these
translate to the --to and --from command line arguments to iptables).
- Bugfix to escape '$' chars in iptables search strings.
- Added cd_rpmbuilder to make it easy to automatically build RPM files of
fwsnort.
- Added support for the iptables OUTPUT chain.
- Added the ChangeLog.svn file so that all of the changed files and
corresponding svn commit messages can be viewed (this file is built from
release to release).
fwsnort-0.8.1 (11/11/2005):
- Updated to use the string match extension "--algo bm" argument if
fwsnort is being run on a 2.6.14 (or greater) kernel.
- Updated to handle the Snort "offset" and "depth" keywords via the
--from and --to options to the string match extension in the 2.6.14
kernel.
- Created RPM package of fwsnort.
- Minor man page updates.
fwsnort-0.8.0 (07/11/2005):
- Completely re-structured fwsnort w.r.t. how it creates Netfilter
chains. There are no longer any per-interface chains (this
greatly simplifies the Netfilter chains).
- Added three new chains "FWSNORT_INPUT_ESTAB", "FWSNORT_OUTPUT_ESTAB"
and "FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB" to which tcp connections in the
ESTABLISHED state are jumped. This allows fwsnort to use the
Netfilter tcp connection tracking mechanism to ignore Stick and Snot
style attacks (similar to the flow:established Snort rule option).
- Added true variable resolution (i.e. HTTP_SERVERS -> HOME_NET -> any)
for the Snort rule header. This directly emulates the behavior of
the Snort IDS.
- Added IP protocol support in the translation of the Snort rule
header. The Snort rule translation rate is now at about 53% for
Snort-2.3.
- Bugfix for ipopts Snort option (several arguments are not supported
by the ipv4options extension).
- Better tests for Netfiler TTL, TOS, and ipv4options matches.
- Replaced IGNORE_IP and IGNORE_NET keywords with single IGNORE_ADDR
keywork in fwsnort.conf.
- Updated to correctly handle ICMP type and code rules (itype and
icode Snort options) via the "--icmp-types type/code" convention.
- Added support for emulating the dsize Snort option through the use
of the Netfilter length match.
- Changed --type argument to --include-types and added list support
so it accepts things like "chat,ddos". Also added --exclude-types
command line argument.
- Added support for multiple sid's (as a comma separated list) in
--snort-sids argument. Also added --exclude-sids argument to remove
a list of sids from translation.
- Added support for the replace Snort option (originally from the
Snort_inline project). The requires the replace string patch.
- Added support for restricting jump rules to a list of interfaces
via the --restrict-intf argument.
- Added kernel patch to extend the maximum packet length that the
string match extension will attempt to search from 1024 bytes to
2048 bytes (requires a kernel re-compile of course).
- Added DRP and REJ strings to logging prefix if --ipt-drop or
--ipt-reject is specified.
- Added snortspoof.pl, which is a simple perl script that emulates
the Stick and Snot tools.
fwsnort-0.7.0 (06/05/2005):
- Added support for the Snort pass action by using the ACCEPT target.
- Added support for the Snort log action by using the ULOG target
(which can then log the packet via the pcap writer).
- Added support for all fwsnort alerts to be logged via the ULOG
target instead of the LOG target.
- Added support for the "resp" keyword to allow it to drive the
Netfilter argument to the REJECT target.
- Added "pcre" to the unsupported list... this knocks the fwsnort
translation rate down to about 50% for Snort-2.3 rules (pcre is
heavily utilized).
- Added "priority" and "rev" to comment lines.
fwsnort-0.6.5 (03/20/2005):
- Updated to not attempt to download Snort rules from snort.org
because the rules are no longer available for automatic downloads
- Changed the install.pl script and the --update-rules mode for
fwsnort to download the latest signature set from
http://www.bleedingsnort.com/.
(Snort.org is now offering pay-service around their rule sets).
- Added signature test for the "flowbits" keyword.
fwsnort-0.6.4 (12/18/2004):
- Updated to Snort-2.3 rules. FWSnort can convert a total of 1710
out of 2559 total Snort-2.3 rules.
- Updated to new Snort rules download link for --update-rules mode:
http://www.snort.org/dl/rules/snortrules-snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz
- Updated to standard [+], [-], and [*] prefixes for info, warning
and die logging messages.
- Added --replace-string patches.
fwsnort-0.6.3 (04/04/2004):
- Added ignore functionality for both IPs and networks
- Split --ipt-block into --ipt-drop and --ipt-reject to add DROP
or REJECT rules respectively.
- Added --add-deleted option to allow rules in the "deleted.rules"
file to be added.
fwsnort-0.6.2 (03/19/2004):
- Added --internal-net and --dmz-net options so that internal and
dmz networks can be manually specified without having to parse
the output of ifconfig. This is most useful for running fwsnort
on a linux system that is acting as a bridge where no ip addresses
are assigned to the interfaces.
- Bugfix for missing icmp-port-unreachable rejects for UDP packets.
fwsnort-0.6.1 (02/01/2004):
- Bugfix for not adding dmz interface rules to INPUT chain.
- Bugfix for not getting the DMZ interface network.
fwsnort-0.6 (01/04/2004):
- Speed increase and disk access decrease by writing iptables
commands to the iptables script only after all lines have been
generated.
- Bugfix for DMZ interface.
- Bugfix for multiple ip_proto fields.
- Removed the ip protocol as an allowed protocol for translation.
- Bugfix for negated port numbers.
- Removed "